Watch Halo 2's cut-scenes in glorious HD

by Dustin Burg { Mar 9th 2008 at 5:15PM }

Since the cut-scenes that were included as part of the Halo 3 Legendary Edition didn't live up to our HD requirements (stupid limited DVD format), the fellas over at HBO and Clan Infectionist have teamed up to bring Halo 2's cut-scenes into the HD era.

Captured using Halo 2 PC, the newly HD'ified H2 cut-scenes are being made available over at HBO in both Quicktime and Windows Media flavors. Currently, only the first two H2 cut-scenes are available for download in HD, but HBO will be rolling out the entire HD H2 cut-scene library throughout March. Staggering their release in an effort stay on top of the massive amount of bandwidth needed to host these gems. Now go forth fanboys, download H2 cut-scenes minus that icky "popping effect" and in full, glorious, beautiful, HD glory.

Tags: bungie, bungie-studios, halo, halo-2, halo-pc

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Brave @ Mar 9th 2008 5:32PM

The cutscense of Halo and Halo 2 in the Halo 3 leg. was such Horrible Quality Dx I don't see how it's DVD format that did that, when XBox uses that format.. I htink

CB17 @ Mar 9th 2008 5:43PM

I'm not sure how many minutes of cutscenes there were, but if it's less than 30 I promise you that the limitation had nothing to do with DVD.

Kokomadeta @ Mar 9th 2008 5:59PM

The quality had nothing to do with DVD being the format. Do a little research before posting. It's not as though HD DVD and Blu-gay are the only formats that can do HD.

erivera3 @ Mar 9th 2008 6:05PM

Halo is so good, they better make that frickin movie.

Van Faulk @ Mar 9th 2008 6:26PM

I'm fairly sure that the "limited dvd" comment was a joke. Most people knpw that a 2 hour HDmovie fits on a single layer DVD just fine.

DeadPlasmaCell @ Mar 9th 2008 6:33PM

Great, now we're going to get a bunch of people wanting to sue because their LE wasn't so Legendary..

Dustin Burg @ Mar 9th 2008 6:36PM

maybe it didn't come across, but me blaming DVD for limiting the quality of the cut-scenes was intended to be very much tongue in cheek. that said, the quality of the video would have definitely been better if it were released on blu-ray :)

horngreen @ Mar 9th 2008 6:52PM

Why would I care to watch this in HD? The graphics were good and all but still quite limited when compared to Hollywood CGI work. Why watch sub par game cutscenes in HD? It's still like putting a pig in a dress...It's still a pig.

Dan Manning @ Mar 9th 2008 8:15PM

Yeah, I was horribly underwhelmed by the Legendary DVD. I expected, maybe, actually recreated cutscenes, or much, much better looking ones. I didn't notice a difference between the cutscenes and the game, minus pop-in.

mattclarkie @ Mar 10th 2008 4:12AM

I'll connect my laptop upto my 46" and finally watch these in HD, they were good in Legendary, but I was disappointed they were only SD.

mattclarkie @ Mar 10th 2008 4:13AM

I logged over 2hours watching the Cut-scenes, DVD could not store that much SD unless they were stored as Game Data, stored as Film Data it wouldn't fit.

mattclarkie @ Mar 10th 2008 4:16AM

*store that much HD.

I can't type this early.

HaLo2FrEeEk @ Mar 21st 2008 3:12AM

Hey all. I can't tell you how excited I am to see this post here. It was me who recorded these movies, http://claninfectionist.com is my site which I have owned for over a year. If you want to do us a favor over there, stop by the site, we are always willing to welcome new members into the ranks. I recorded these in part wanting to do a favor to the Halo community and in part wanting to attract attention to our little-known site. I recorded them in 1080p HD, and I still have the raw footage, so who knows, I might release 1080p versions sometime, but for now, it's 720p, though still equally beautiful.

I hope you all enjoy these, and please remember Clan Infectionist.